The Fishes of Levitt Pavillion
Rupa and the April Fishes were even hotter, Friday night at the Levitt Pavillion in Memorial Park, than Michelle Mills' preview in our Scene magazine would have led you to believe.
And that's pretty hot.
This is the kind of show that gives the odd moniker World Music -- we all of us live in the world, after all -- a good name.
They rocked, is what it comes down to. Rupa, an M.D. who is a professor at UC San Francisco, never gave the impression that she was slumming -- and never pretended to be anything but an American. The French, the Spanish, the Gypsy, the Bollywood influences that she brings to her music felt entirely natural, song to song.
A huge crowd was gathered to picnic and groove, and 100 people danced down front, almost as hard as she did.
If this be the music of the contemporary Bay Area, play on.